#104 - Why “zero hunger” gives you radical health.

Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise and I'm the number one New York Times bestselling author and leading fitness, nutrition, and peak performance trainer to the world's busiest celebrities. You may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian, Tyra Banks, Kelly Clarkson, or even Dr. Oz. My career started because in my early 20s I was out of control and addicted to sweets, carbs and salty snacks, and experts told me to simply count calories to get control. They were wrong. My passion to get control of my hunger led me to find simple ways backed by science that would turn off physical hunger as well as my emotional eating instantly. And I know I can help you too. Welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. Well, happy Monday. It is January 11th. I'm Jorge, and welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show, guys. Happy New Year. Uh, hopefully you've had a great start to the new year. It's been a rough one, I think, for the whole country. And what a time to be alive. Um, but even though there's a lot of change out there in our world, there's a lot of opportunity. And I'm excited because for me, for the last 25 years, uh, this time of the year has been the time that a lot of my clients are How shall we say, naturally pulled towards getting healthy. January, the biggest thing most of us make resolutions for is to get healthy and fit. And so if that's your goal, you've come to the right place. This is the number one podcast really to help people overcome their, I hate to call it addiction, but their draw, their pull towards sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods. And the bottom line is, I have a method that I've really spent my entire career putting together that can help you lose up to 2 pounds each day. And so we're going to talk about that on the show today, because really in 2021, for me, it's about really getting people results and results that don't take, you know, forever too, because I can tell you a lot of people want results and they're willing to do things that are unhealthy. And for me, you know, I've written over 30 books and I've spent 20 years being an author in publishing. And with all the books I've written, all my books have been backed by doctors, science, citations, research, footnotes, studies, and I can tell you my Zero Hunger Plan is really not just study proven, but more importantly, it's been proven by my clients. And so I'm so excited to share that this week with you. And then at the end of the show, I'm gonna invite you to join my challenge, which starts a week from today on January the 18th. We go live at 5:00 PM Pacific time on Zoom, and it's totally free. You are absolutely welcome to join. We extended the time to give more people the opportunity to join. This is gonna be our biggest one. We're gonna have over 1,000 people from across the country and around the world. We had people last time in Australia, we had people in Asia, we had people in Paris, we had people in London, Spain. I mean, it's international. It's at least 12 countries from around the country, so around the world, I should say. So I'd love to have you join us, and it's totally free. It's a 19-day challenge where you can lose up to 2 pounds a day, you know, and you'll probably do that in the first couple of days again and again and again, and then it slows down. Obviously, the more weight you have to lose, the longer you can keep that going, but You know, we had people consistently see results and results for me are everything because, you know, there are a lot of experts out there in today's world, whether they're published or they're just on Instagram and they claim incredible results. But if you don't have, I would say the proof of that. And the proof for me has been my career. You know, my reputation is everything and I'm excited to really put my name behind what I call the Zero Hunger Plan, which is really a simple way to, to water add-in. You'll learn about this on today's show that you just add to water. That helps correct the deficiency that we have with minerals. And when you correct that deficiency, you end up just not being hungry and you lose weight. And on today's show, the topic is kind of timely because I want you to know that having zero hunger most of the day is healthy. A lot of people think it's not healthy to not eat less. We think— and believe me, I know, because I grew up in a Latin Catholic family where food was love, um, you know, and for me, if I didn't eat breakfast early morning and it was a big one, my grandma Maria would be scared for my health. You know, she thought that the more I would eat, the healthier I was. And obviously it's 2021 and we know better. Anyone who's intelligent understands that overeating is not healthy. And, and that's why we have this epidemic in our world, in the Western world. It's not just in the U.S., it's all over, all over the world that follows kind of like the standard American diet, which they abbreviate we abbreviate as SAD, S-A-D, right? Standard American Diet. And unfortunately, when you have extra weight, not only do you have underlying health conditions like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, all the issues that cause concern, but in today's COVID-19 world, you have the greatest chance of not surviving COVID-19. And I'm someone who has been through it myself. I went through it in September of last year, and I can tell you, it is a hard thing thing to get through. I thought it was bad asthma, severe asthma. I'm pretty fit, I'm pretty healthy, I'm pretty lean, but it was hard on me. You know, it felt like I was, you know, 14 or 15 again when I had severe asthma and I couldn't run, couldn't walk. I was limited severely. I'm lucky that I'm very lean and strong, but I can tell you, if you are concerned about COVID-19, today's show is critical. If you're just concerned about overall health, today's show is critical. And if you want a solution that is a radical solution to weight, We're not going to be counting calories, I can tell you that. And we're not going to be counting points. No disrespect to Weight Watchers or to the, to the normal situation that most of us follow. Every year we count calories and we pledge to eating more high-volume, low-calorie food. And I can tell you, I was a part of that. I was a part of that movement and also the movement of eating small meals throughout the day. And I can tell you, the science has absolutely shown that If you can turn off hunger and eat less, you will be healthier. And you can do it in a place, in a way that is automatic where you forget to literally eat. So on today's show, we're going to talk about all that and how easy this is, because I can tell you when it's not hard, it becomes something you can do as a lifestyle. And that's my goal for you. This is not just some fad. This is not a quick fix. It isn't even a 19-day challenge where it's 19 days and then game over. This is a lifestyle., and it's a lifestyle that I live. It's a lifestyle that all my clients do, uh, from celebrities to people online to my readers of my books. So you're gonna love today's show. Now, before we start though, I need to give a shout out to our sponsors on this beautiful Monday. Um, first, thank you to Elemental Labs. They create one of my favorite, um, biohacks out there to turning off hunger. And we're gonna talk about how to make your own today, my electrolyte homemade water recipe, which you can make today. I, I'm gonna encourage it highly next week when you join the challenge. But if you are say too busy and you want it pre-made for you, my buddy Robb Wolf, who's New York Times bestselling author, has created probably the best stuff out there that I have been able to, to find. And I'm so grateful to him because he's giving all our listeners a free box of electrolytes, a $45 value for free by simply going to this website. And you have to order his value bundle, but you get one box for free, which is huge. And you go to the website, drinkelement.com/jorge. And I'll spell it for you. It's drink, D-R-I-N-K, E-L-M-E-N-T, dot com, C-O-M, forward slash J-O-R-G-E. When you go there, you can sign up for any one of these value bundles and you can kind of customize your electrolytes. And I can tell you, I drink one of these every 2 hours. I make my own, uh, for the most part, but when I travel, they come in these little satchels, these little pouches. And just tear them, add them to— add it to 32 ounces of water, and literally you turn off hunger for 2 hours. 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So check us out. I'm so happy to be sponsoring the show, zerohungerplan.com. That's with a Z, Z-E-R-O hungerplan.com. And, uh, get ready for our challenge, guys. It's next Monday and invite your family and friends, please. It's gonna be awesome. All right, with that said, guys, let's dive into today's show. Now, I hope I got your attention cuz I can tell you If you want radical control over your health, a lot of people think that you need a special pill, a potion, and I think Benjamin Franklin said it best. When you're not well, two things he used to say, rest and fasting. Now, I don't like the word fasting because it sounds like you're losing out on something, but I can tell you this, eating less is powerful. And when it comes to health and weight loss, when you eat less, you're gonna extend your lifespan, you're gonna improve everything from your body's ability to recoil skin to stem cells. And I want to, I want to share this with you because it is such an important way to motivate yourself to understand that, hey, you are stronger than you think. Because a lot of us, and I'm one of them, when we're kids, we were told, you know, when we were like during the ages of probably 7 to 10, I was told for years by my grandma that if I didn't eat and got too skinny that I'd get sick. And so I connected in my head eating to health. Now don't get me wrong, we have to eat. I eat every day, um, and we gotta eat. Um, but overeating has become epidemic. And it's a lot of times, you know, with COVID-19, it's stress. You know, we, we can't conquer the night, we can't conquer the day. It's stressful. Just put on last week's news and we know how much stress there is in the world. Um, and, and, you know, thank God the Super Bowl's coming. We have some fun in February coming around the corner, but it's been a stressful start to 2021. And when you have stress, here's what happens. Your dopamine and serotonin levels, which are hormones in your body, um, that are in your brain, drop. And when they drop, your body, as survival to, to kind of get you in a place that's safe, searches your house, your world, for anything that could improve that and raise serotonin and dopamine. And the only thing that does that almost guaranteed is sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods. And underline the word snack foods, like potato chips, corn chips. It's not the salt. The salt's good. You're gonna find out about that in a second here. Salt is everything. Sodium is one of the most important minerals that we're deficient in. And so I've created a drink. It's just a homemade electrolyte drink. I call it Zero Hunger Water that I want you to download. I'm gonna tell you where to get it. You simply have to sign up for my newsletter. You go to zerohungerplan.com. Sign up for it there. You'll be sent my recipe for it in 3 different ways. We can do 1 serving, you can do 12, or you can do 48, and it'll give you the ability to make it in bulk. And you can make this at home for pennies, pennies. And it has 3, 3 main minerals: sodium, like I said, it's about half a teaspoon per serving, then a little bit of magnesium and a tiny bit of potassium. The recipe will teach you how to do it. I'll show you how to use things like lemon or lemon powder, to give it flavor, and then plant-based sweeteners like stevia or monk fruit to add sweetness. So you literally turn this into like an orange juice or lemonade minus the sugar. You make it at home, and when you drink this, you literally turn off your body's hunger mechanisms, which are based on cortisol. It helps create a baseline of cortisol. And when you drink this every 2 hours, about 32 ounces of water— I usually give myself 2 to 3 minutes, I mean, at least, you know, no more than 50 minutes to, to drink this. This isn't some chugging game. This isn't like a college beer bong game where we're trying to overdrink, but 32 ounces of water, even if you're petite, 4'9"— I have women that are 5'2"— petite people can do this. Now, you may— maybe you need 30 minutes to drink it. Now, will you go to the bathroom? Here's what's shocking: when you add these electrolytes to the water, your water then basically becomes a part of your plasma in the blood, and it helps satiate not just your hunger but stabilizes cortisol, which is a stress hormone which turns off your body's cravings for sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods. And that is magic, because then you're not hungry. Boom, just like that. It's like a magic potion. Imagine being able to drink water, but special water, zero hunger water with these electrolytes, and your hunger disappears. I drink this all day. I'll have usually one meal around dinner time, and that's it. Sometimes I go longer. Now you may be thinking, Jorge, this sounds unsafe. Is it truly okay to eat less food? Well, I'm going to tell you, the science has shown that the absolute answer is yes. If you want to hear me and Dr. Jason Fung, the world's expert on this topic, make sure to listen to episode 89 that I did earlier last year. But I will tell you, the answer is yes. And what the science has shown— and then there's different benefits— but the longer we don't eat, the longer we forget to eat and eat less, the more benefits. Right up front, you get more stable blood sugar. Your body goes into fat-burning mode once you hit almost 18 hours. You know, you get mental clarity. Then this thing at 24 hours, and I have clients that go that long, called autophagy, which is anti-aging, which is your body's ability to do housekeeping and restore tissues and joints and recoil loose skin, improve organ function, happens. You go longer than 24 hours, you get growth hormone, you get recovery that's improved, where if you have a bad night's knee or a bad back, your body, through autophagy— we can look this word up— autophagy basically means your body's ability to do housekeeping improves and improves. Now, I do this once a week, and I know this may sound kind of extreme, but I forget to eat for about 68 hours, which you're saying, Jorge, is that 3 days? Well, I do do that, and I'm doing it right now as I speak. I won't be eating today, tomorrow, or Wednesday. Maybe thinking, holy moly, you must be starving. You're anorexic, Jorge, and I'm not. I can tell you I weigh almost 205 pounds, lean muscle. I'm pretty cut right now, and I feel phenomenal. Huge amounts of energy, no hunger at all. And I have clients that do this too. You don't have to do it. This is not something that's required part of our challenge, but you will forget to eat, at least for most of the day. And when you do that, any diet you're on, I don't care what the diet is, from a Mediterranean diet to a pasta diet or the popcorn diet, you're gonna do better because when you allow your body this time off to not eat all day, your body heals. It replenishes. So much so, they've shown now— and this is why I do 72 hours, which is about a 3-day fast every week— stem cells get improved. You get new free stem cells by doing this. Your immune function improves. I mean, the benefits go on and on and on. On. Now you may be thinking, Jorge, well, what happens if I don't have any more fat? Will I lose my, my muscle? Because I don't want you to lose muscle. Here's what's crazy. Most of my clients aren't in that situation. Even yours truly, I'm at 18% fat right now. My goal during, uh, the next few months— I'm going to turn 50 in March, March 6th is my birthday, I'm a Pisces— is to get to 8% body fat, which is what most really professional kind of fitness people I used to be that 20, 30 years ago when I was younger, but now that I'm almost 50, I'm happy with the weight I'm at. But my goal is to add about 10 pounds of lean muscle while I'm losing about 10 pounds of additional fat to get me to 8%. So I want to look my best. I feel like I know I can do it. My dream has always been to get to the level of my mentor. You guys know my mentor is Mark Sisson. He's 67 years young. He's been doing this kind of fasting for 20 years where he does one meal a day. He doesn't do 72 hours. I've talked to him about this because he loves to eat. Hey, don't get me wrong, I love to eat too, but I eat well the 4 days I do eat. I promise you, I'm eating delicious stuff, including pizza at times. Yes, pasta, even though it's spaghetti squash. And I like pizzas that are a little more healthy. I try to avoid flour because of the gluten. I'm sure you guys know about that. But there's so many great recipes when you join our challenge. You're going to learn how to do it all. Whether you do an extended fast or shorter one. The bottom line, it's not about that. It's about just forgetting to eat and knowing that eating less is good for us. And if you're interested in this, guys, again, just go to ZeroHungerPlan.com. Just add your name at the bottom of the page to my email list and you'll get added to our email list. And the very first thing you'll be getting is the recipe for this zero hunger water. It's pretty much what I call it, and it's is so powerful because the more you drink it, the more you forget to eat, the less you'll eat. Now the thing is, I, you know, when I'm not fasting extendedly, you know, I eat every 24 hours and I'll do that. And, you know, usually have this maybe 5 to 6 times throughout the day, turns off my hunger for a good chunk of the day. And then I end up eating dinner at like 5 o'clock. It's pretty simple, 4 or 5 o'clock. Sometimes I like an earlier meal and then I get to eat the foods I love, you know. And sometimes that is a pizza, and sometimes it's even nachos, as I love nachos. But I can tell you, when you learn that it's okay to eat less, your life will change. Now think about this, I'm gonna just end on this note. A lot of us have been taught that the more we eat, the healthier we get. And we've seen that on what? Television. And television, everyone that buys ads on TV, companies, make money by us buying their food, right? So that's the bottom line, guys. You just have to put yourself in that place of common sense to know that everything we've been told by our family and also television has probably been to their best of ability, you know, the, the truth from their perspective. But now we're going to look at it from a perspective of common sense. And this is really about ancestral health. And that's— we're going to talk about that a little bit tomorrow's show. But every day this week, I'm going to give you tools to really maximize your ability to do this and to have zero hunger so you feel great, not tired, not lightheaded, not dizzy, high energy. And when you're tapping into stored fat where you're losing— drum roll on this, there's my drum roll, let me do a proper drum roll— up to 2 pounds a day. That's my goal for you starting next Monday. And so if you haven't signed up for that, then do that too right now. Simply go to zerohungerplan.com and sign up. Up, uh, invite your family, invite your friends, tell them there's this guy Jorge, he's a New York Times bestselling author, he's written over 30 books, and he's talking about how we can turn off our hunger and get radical control over sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods. And you can do this. And if you do this, imagine what it will do, not just for your stem cells, not for your immunity, not for human growth hormone, not even for fat burning. But what it will do when you have that confidence, when you look in the mirror and you see the true best self, your healthiest self, your happiest self, it changes your life. And for me, it's impacted the lives of my kids, my family, my clients, the people I work with. It's changed everything in my life. So I want that for you in 2021. So right now, head on over to ZeroHungerPlan.com, sign up for our challenge. Tell your friends about it on social. Please give our podcast, this podcast, as many 5 stars as you're able. Put in some good comments and share it with today's— share today's message with your social media feed if you can, whether it's on Facebook, whether it's on Instagram, Twitter. Please share it. We really appreciate that. That's how we make this happen. And, uh, and I can't wait to see you live on next Monday at 5 PM Pacific time for free at zerohungerplan.com. And it's on a Zoom link, so you'll get all the information sent out to you this Friday. All right, guys, peace and purpose. Thanks so much. Take good care. All right, today's episode is complete, guys. Thank you so much for listening, and I want to ask you to please subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast, uh, and please leave a review on Apple as well. Give it 5 stars if you think the show has helped you in some way to transform your thinking. I hope it has. And more importantly, share your comments, your review of what today's episode did for your thinking, how it shifted your thinking, and what you got out of it. Because I think that is how we spread this. And for me, this is a revolution. This is not a podcast, this is a way of life. And I hope to transform over a million lives in the next couple years, and I need your help. So please become part of the Zero Hunger Revolution by leaving that review on Apple Podcasts and subscribing today. Thanks so much. Have a great one. Peace and purpose, and I'll see you on the next episode.